How We Treat Liver Cancer

No two patients are alike. So our team of specialists creates personalized treatment plans for every person we see. You’ll benefit from the combined expertise of specialists in radiology, surgery, pathology, pharmacology, oncology and therapists in fields like physical therapy and psychology.

Your recommended treatment will be based on best practices that have worked for other patients, specific aspects of your cancer/tumor, the results of all your tests, the stage of your cancer and your personal preferences.

Liver cancer is typically treated through a combined approach that may include radiation therapy, targeted therapy, chemotherapy and hormone therapy. Surgery is commonly done to remove the tumor.

Surgery is the most common treatment option for thyroid cancer. The goal of surgery is to take out the cancer as well as a slight edge of healthy tissue around the tumor. In some cases, all or part of the thyroid gland may be removed in other cases only one side of the thyroid, where the tumor is located, is removed. In order to ensure that all cancer has been removed, surgery may also be used to take out lymph nodes in the neck and chest that haven’t gotten better with other treatments.

If your entire thyroid gland is removed, you will take thyroid hormone replacement pills daily for the rest of your life.

Radiation therapy uses high-energy X-rays to kill or shrink cancer cells. Your doctor may use internal or external radiation, or both, to treat your cancer. This treatment can be used to shrink a tumor before surgery, kill cancer cells that remain in the area after surgery, target tumors that can’t be removed with surgery, or treat cancer if you cannot have surgery.

Chemotherapy uses powerful medicines, either given through a vein or taken as pills, to kill cancer cells all through the body. Chemo is given in rounds, followed by a break; treatment can last for months. Chemo may be used to shrink a tumor before surgery or to kill any cancer cells that remain after local treatments. It may also treat tumors that have grown in other places in the body. Cancers that have spread are usually treated with chemotherapy.

Tumor ablation treatment destroys a tumor without surgically removing it from the body. This is often the medical recommendation when you’re too sick to have surgery. Ablation techniques include heating the tumor with radio waves (known as RFA), freezing the tumor (known as cryoablation), or killing the tumor by blocking certain blood vessels and cutting off the blood supply that feeds the kidney.

You should always talk to your doctor about your specific treatment plan and what you can expect.

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